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Delia Cortese

Middlesex University

Occupation

Associate Professor

Contact

Secondary Phone: +44-2084-115491

Discipline

Religious Studies/Theology

Sub Areas

7th-13th Centuries

Gender/Women's Studies

Islamic Studies

Medieval

Geographic Areas of Interest

Egypt

Fertile Crescent

Specialties

Ismailism, Fatimid History, Islamic Codicology

Languages

Arabic (advanced)

Persian (intermediate)

Education

PhD | 1993 | Islamic Stds | SOAS

Abstracts

The Transmission of Sunni Learning in Fatimid Ismaili Egypt Women’s Contribution to the Transmission of Sunni Learning in Fatimid Egypt Upper Egypt: a ‘Shii’ powerhouse in the Fatimid period?